Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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I now better understood, as well, my having been obtained.
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My beauty, if beauty it was, was intended to have its purpose in certain plans.
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647
It was, it seemed, to be as food exhibited to a starving man.
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648
And it seemed, too, that, from the point of view of those on this world, that some grievous insult was intended as well, first, doubtless, the general insult that he, a free man, would be attended by a mere slave, an insult common to those in the pits, and, second, that he, a free man, would be attended by such a slave, a mere pierced-ear girl, and one who would be clad in such a way before him, and behave in such a way before him, one whom he, to his misery, would be unable either to enjoy or punish.
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He must endure, even, it seemed, if they had their way, the provocations, the mockery, of a slave.
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How rich the joke! How delicious the insult! But I wondered, really, if the peasant, so simple, so huge, so remote, would even understand this sort of thing.
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Might it not all be lost upon him? I was not even certain he understood he was in chains, in the depths.
I now better understood, as well, my having been obtained.
My beauty, if beauty it was, was intended to have its purpose in certain plans.
It was, it seemed, to be as food exhibited to a starving man.
And it seemed, too, that, from the point of view of those on this world, that some grievous insult was intended as well, first, doubtless, the general insult that he, a free man, would be attended by a mere slave, an insult common to those in the pits, and, second, that he, a free man, would be attended by such a slave, a mere pierced-ear girl, and one who would be clad in such a way before him, and behave in such a way before him, one whom he, to his misery, would be unable either to enjoy or punish.
He must endure, even, it seemed, if they had their way, the provocations, the mockery, of a slave.
How rich the joke! How delicious the insult! But I wondered, really, if the peasant, so simple, so huge, so remote, would even understand this sort of thing.
Might it not all be lost upon him? I was not even certain he understood he was in chains, in the depths.
- (Witness of Gor, Chapter )